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Alderman Livingston from the Committee appointed to corre-
spond with the Agent of this Colony, at the Court of Great-Britain,
acquainted the House, that the Committee conceived it expedient,
that one or more Members should be added to the said Committee,
to correspond with the said Agent, about the Affairs of this Colony.
Ordered, That Robert R Livingston, Esq; be added to, and made
one of the said Committee of Correspondence.
Die Jovis, 9h. A. M. the 18th October 1764.
Ordered, That the said Committee appointed to correspond with
the said Agent, be also a Committee during the Recess of the House,
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to write to, and correspond with, the several Assemblies, or Com-
mittees of Assemblies on this Continent, on the subject Matter of
the Act, commonly called the Sugar Act, of the Act restraining
Paper Bills of Credit in the Colonies from being a legal Tender,
and of the several other Acts of Parliament lately passed, with
Relation to the Trade of the Northern Colonies; and also on the
Subject of the impending Dangers, which threaten the Colonies of
being taxed by Laws to be passed in Great-Britain.
Extracted from, Compared and Examined wth, the Records of the
Proceedings of the General Assembly for the Colony of New-
York, by
Abraham Lott, Clerk.
From the Colony of New-Jersey,
Robert Ogden,
Hendrick Fisher, Esquires.
Joseph Borden,
Who produced the following Appointment, viz.
At a Meeting of a large Number of the Representatives of the
Colony of New-Jersey, at the House of Robert Sprowl, October
the 3d. 1765,
At the Desire of the Speaker of the House of Representatives as
aforesaid, and at the earnest Request of many of our Constituents,
to consider of some Method for humbly, loyally, and dutifully join-
ing in a Petition to his Majesty, that he would be graciously pleased
to recommend it to the Parliament of Great-Britain, to redress our
Grievances, by repealing several of the late Acts of Parliament affect-
ing the Northern Colonies, particularly that called the Stamp-Act;
Robert Ogden, Esq; Hendrick Fisher, Esq; and Joseph Borden,
Esq; were desired to attend at the Congress, now met at New-York,
and join in the Measures there to be concluded on for the Purposes
aforesaid, and to make Report of their Proceedings therein, at the
next Meeting of General Assembly.
Signed by Order,
John Lawrance.
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